Red team services

When a real threat actor attacks your organization, you need to be able to detect the intrusion before you can respond to it. Our service helps you find out how quickly your security team becomes aware of an incident.

If your network, systems, or applications are breached, your response must be appropriate and effective. Use our ethical hacking services to find out if it is in a controlled environment, rather than waiting for a real attack.

You already have safeguards in place to stop or at least slow down threat actors. Now, find out if they will work when the time comes. We tell you what gaps your security systems have, so you can prioritize improvements.

We give you a complete breakdown of how your security measures performed under pressure, so you have data-backed insights, not guesswork. 

True security is more than protecting against known threats; it also means proactively finding vulnerabilities and mitigating threats. With our red teaming services, you can plug gaps in your security program and be better prepared to fend off attacks.

We begin by putting ourselves in an attacker’s shoes and analyzing how they would operate. To do so, we research the threat landscape relevant to your sector and map likely adversary behaviors. Then, we use these to create realistic tactics so that the engagement is similar to actual campaigns rather than generic testing

Now, we emulate the behavior of an external threat actor, within agreed boundaries, to pinpoint potential targets and entry points. As part of this, we map your organization’s attack surface, including open-source intelligence, exposed services, and third-party dependencies. We identify patterns that help us form hypotheses about internal structure, and build a target list of realistic external entry points and a working model of the environment.

At this point, we build the testing infrastructure and techniques needed for a realistic delivery. These are designed to reflect techniques used by real threat actors. We also set up internal command-and-control (C2) capabilities to monitor and control the process during execution, along with logging to create a report for post-engagement analysis.

Targeting only the teams and individuals approved by you in the Rules of Engagement, we attempt to gain access to your systems through realistic vectors aligned with the threat model. As part of this, we might use social engineering attacks, such as phishing and spear phishing.

If your perimeter controls prove resistant to external compromise in the agreed-upon time frame, we may recommend an ‘assumed breach’ approach. Here, we begin the exercise assuming the attacker has already gained access. This allows us to focus on internal movement, privilege escalation, and other high-impact attack paths.

Now that we have initial access, our next step is to build on that, just like a real attacker would. We do this using privilege escalation and lateral movement, exploiting the initial access level to gain higher levels of permissions, and that first entry point to move into other systems.

The C2 infrastructure we set up earlier becomes the central point of communication between the red team and the compromised systems they have managed to access.  It logs everything, including who the operator was, the actions they took, and the consequent results. 

This helps us create an accurate timeline of events. We can cross-reference this activity with your security alerts and monitoring systems to determine whether the attack was detected and investigated, or missed.

At this point, we know an attacker can gain access to one system and use it to increase their reach. The question now is whether they can use that for something harmful, like accessing sensitive data or performing unauthorized actions on critical infrastructure. We test exactly that, highlighting what’s most at risk and how well existing controls prevent bad outcomes.

Keeping the agreed safety controls in mind, we assess whether it is possible to establish persistence mechanisms that could allow an attacker to regain access or move data outside your organization’s network. 

Trust isn’t claimed – it’s validated. Our team holds NCSC CHECK, CREST, and STAR accreditations, alongside ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and SOC 2. We are also a PCI Qualified Security Assessor and a Cyber Essentials certification body. Testing is led by vetted specialists with backgrounds in offensive security and secure development. Our consultants hold certifications including CISSP, CHECK CTL/CTM, CREST, and OSCP, and have delivered CSAS-approved red team engagements.


As one of only a few organisations authorised by the National Cyber Security Centre to deliver independent resilience testing, our work meets the highest assurance standards.

Expertise is not just about certificates and qualifications. While those things do help with initial trust, it is the results that matter. With over two decades of secure development experience and experts with years of cybersecurity knowledge, we understand cyber threats very well. We have studied them both while testing our products and during the hundreds of red team operations we have undertaken.

You want your IT environment and infrastructure to be secure, and to know if there are ways to strengthen your defenses. Additionally, you need a clear, understandable assessment of your setup to make informed decisions. That is why we offer a defined, structured process with detailed reporting.